Catching Ducks

This movie was released in 1944, so I'm not going to worry about spoilers...


A little murder mystery, where the victim is later one of the suspects. Interesting enough to watch to the end, but not something I'm inclined to re-watch.

At the beginning of the movie, I thought the old guy seemed creepy, and had an unhealthy fixation on Laura. I was pleasantly surprised when he turned out to be just as creepy as I had originally thought. Since this movie is seventy years old, I wasn't sure if that would be the case.

Remember the Bechdel Test? This movie passes it, but just barely. (Laura has a conversation with her maid, to explain that she wasn't really dead, that it was just a mix-up, and could she make some breakfast please?) But this is one of the very few movies that doesn't pass the reverse Bechdel Test. There are three male lead characters, and they talk to each other a lot (most of the movie, really), but they spend the entire time talking about Laura!

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